"...the members of the armed forces have been
compelled to make greater economic sacrifice and every other kind of
sacrifice than the rest of us, and they are entitled to definite action to
help take care of their special problems."

Throughout World War II, Franklin Roosevelt was concerned with
the post-war period, especially with how American soldiers would readjust
to civilian life. Most of the soldiers were young men who had spent their
youth at war, many of whom had forsaken college or vocational training to
fight in the war. To make up for this, Franklin Roosevelt signed the
Servicemen's Readjustment Act, also known as the "G.I. Bill". The
G.I. Bill provided new opportunities and resources to veterans such as
money for education and training, loan guarantees for homes, job-finding
assistance, unemployment relief, and improved VA hospitals. By offering
veterans incentives to go back to school and not work, the G.I. Bill helped
to make America's conversion to a peacetime economy a smooth one because
not as many people were clamoring for jobs.